Master of the Universe

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. God
    — Constantine inscribed these words on the pedestal:— Oh Christ! king and master of the universe, I consecrate this humble tower, this sceptre, and the power of Rome, to thee!
  2. A powerful person. idiomatic
    — First, by them made obstinate by the onetime masters of the universe.
  3. A highly successful business person. idiomatic
    — The Masters of the Universe were a set of lurid, rapacious plastic dolls that his otherwise perfect daughter liked to play with. […] On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that. . . Masters of the Universe. There was . . . no limit whatsoever!

词形变化

Masters of the Universe plural

词源

The "highly successful business person" sense is derived from Mattel's Masters of the Universe toy line and media franchise, which was launched in 1982. It was first used as such in the 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (see quotations).
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